battle cyber struggles to meet e.u. demands for a rescue package ahead of monday's deadline with some harsh warnings that europe's patients is running out. of. powerful partnership the chinese president says cooperation with russia will lead to a fair world order as he makes a speech at a moscow university on his first official overseas in gauge. and the desperate act of defiance in guantanamo a mass hunger strike enters its critical forty sixth day when serious health repercussions begin the pentagon's asking for almost fifty million dollars to renovate the notorious prison camp.

i welcome you watching our take with me andrew far. now the clock is ticking for debt stricken cyprus to meet conditions for a ten billion euro e.u. bailout the country's parliament has approved several key bills restructuring its banks but is yet to decide on the most contentious measure the levy on bank deposits the deadline is on monday when the european central bank says it will cut off funds to cypriot banks are still is following the torturous debates in the country's parliament and the mood on the streets. the cypriot parliament has passed a series of bills which review part of a package that they will present to the troika to get approval in order to get the ten billion euro bailout they needed to save their country from bankruptcy their banks essentially now one of these bills pass is one on capital controls it could be imposed on bags essentially means restricting the access of some people or to their accounts and also restricting the flow of money in and out of cypriot bank accounts of the other bill passes creating that solidarity fund which essentially

means pooling state assets together to create this fund to contribute to the amount of money they need to present in order to get that fail out again and another bill that was approved was restructuring banks and the people started protesting on the streets when it was announced that one of the conditions is imposing a a tax on bank deposits of cypriot bank account holders and the people were certainly not happy with this this would eat into their savings they were worried that they will lose that amount of money now this is still a question and the parliamentarians here are still going to be debating on our how much that will be how a percentage that will be on which kind of back accounts of cypriot bank holders that will be as well so it's still a big question and this is an answer that the people are certainly going to be waiting for you've been out into the street speaking to the people on how they actually feel about the decisions that their leaders have been making so we're here with me to avoid the protesters for the past two days here in cyprus ever since the announcement over the last weekend that the e.u. what would be giving them ten billion euros of bailout like conditions that they

were willing to accept and it's really been a combination of very fast the jury rating and bad news for cypriots and to some slow moving developments of my new solutions to the problems that they're facing now there's really a cash problem in the country the banks are probably going to going to be close until next week many people have already gone out to the streets trying to get some money from the a.t.m. and people gathered here it's really an interesting mix so there are some people worried for the possibility of losing their jobs there's even some foreigners who have called cyprus home were worried about their savings always good. to some of them and here's what they had to say the banking crisis has affected us to know we can get the money we've earned we work inside chris we're not jobless who can get cash out of a.t.m. machines. we've invested our money into the economy of cyprus but they could cut us off what are the grounds for that because. the didn't we have to get out of the euro but we will stay home how they would pay us and our kids.

and we don't accept it that would be no development with us and nobody would come to the side of the story that's not part of it is actually just a few metres from the garden those guys over there beyond the barricades the people who have come out to the streets really want to get their voices heard by the leaders who make their way to parliament to those meetings and come up with solutions for the country and this is been be a common sight now in many troubled you rizzoli nations people coming out to the streets in the past few days many of the people i've spoken to said that the one question on their minds is how long is this going to go on leave we want to know when will that solution might be found reportedly to see a cyprus tests are still yet. well german chancellor angela merkel appears furious with plan b. as mapped out by nicosia after it rejected the levy on bank deposits in parliament she complained of a lack of communication with cyber says leaders are more they are playing with fire and rested k a candidate for the very in parliament but he's merkel's harsh

rhetoric is because she is feeling the heat the mess to clean. now we are in a complicated situation and why the european union was so harsh i cannot explain for chancellor merkel it's the elections upcoming in september. that's why she demands that the people of cyprus have to. carry birds your. however for me this cannot be alert solution you cannot solve this situation by adding debt like the term billion now the european union willing to pay as a no one has a guarantee whatever about this will be no sustainable solution for which it will impose austerity to the people of cyprus they did it for them and now they change gears because because of the upcoming elections the german voters will not go on

with a government policy like this they cypriot finance minister has been in moscow in search of a rescue deal but returned home empty handed this russian investor showed no interest however moscow says the door remains open and is prepared to assist in reaching a consensus between nicosia and the e.u. well arty's news editor i've across he explains now some believe the hardline stance stems from german chancellor merkel's desire to gain all she can politically from the situation. this starts at a russian e.u. summit last year when the euro krotz told russia that cyprus would be their problem to solve cyprus had been racked by the greek economic collapse the russians didn't take kindly to that said it's a euro zone problem and it's not like russians are the only ones availing of time cypriot tax loopholes however russia did stop two and a half billion to help trying to keep the island afloat a change in the cypriot government last year delayed any chance of

a resolution most notably a russian e.u. summit last december but it crucially brought the timing of any deal into the german election cycle and this is why merkel is playing hardball merkel's in search of votes she's under pressure at home and explains the euro group's decision to back a raid on privately held posits in cyprus germany's taking a very very hard line on this issue merkel's uncompromising stance backed euro group's decision to raid a privately held super deposits weekend. and sent the cypriots to moscow looking for help the russians look at the cyprus approach and say no we're not going to get involved for two reasons one it's a eurozone problem but secondly merkel is going to drive this into the ground she's taking a hard line on the cypriot issue and nobody is going to touch cyprus or until she has finished the political process or may get into the political capital necessary from this situation to let cyprus off the hook it's going to be

a very very long weekend in the halls of brussels and berlin and the escalating crisis in cyprus is sending shivers all across the euro zone markets analyst a mediator nonie told r.t. slovenia could be next in line looking for an easy bail and. the cypriot crisis will have broad based impacts across the eurozone and across the wider region but one country that stands out in particular is slovenia slovenia has been standing out as a potential candidate for seeking international bailout for much of the past year and now that we have had the crisis in cyprus form of the proposed bailout and a potential tax on deposits it really creates increases fears in slovenia of what an international bailout might entail just living is definitely want to want to bear in mind going forward as long as it's not shut from international markets and i don't think it is they will be fine and they won't have to seek international bailout the condition which would trigger slovenia having to seek international bailout is if the current political turmoil in slovenia carries on and effectively

keeps living in the shots living out of international markets under that scenario might have to seek international bailout and i think the stress points will become visible towards the second half of the year when slovenia starts running out of cash. and for more expert analysis and opinions on the deadlock you can head to our web site at r.t. dot com find out why some believe the levy was a nonstarter in all depositors large and small will have to cough up anyway no matter what the stimulus. also online could be your own could put these are some of the slogans being chanted by protesters taking to the streets in nicosia in fury over the bailout plan. the new chinese president has called on cooperation with russia saying it will lead to a fair world order paying is in moscow for his first official overseas trip and was addressing students at one of the city's universities the two states have agreed

major new energy and trade deals xi jinping has already called the accords a breakthrough with russia's ross neath now the world's largest oil producer so it's a double supplies to china it in the us the latest of the major points that think the chinese leader has also made of course was about the cooperation between russia and china among other things that the two countries also agree on is the fact that it it is about time to leave the old stereotypes behind he said that we're living in the twenty first century and therefore the called war era is gone and over with and therefore this theory types and thinking along those lines also has to go and he also mentioned that course russia and china are there cooperation will provide for a fairer world order he also mentioned of course the need to not just to move away from syria types but also to move towards the multiple world and the multiple areas of the of the world is also one of the founding principles of bricks of course

brics essentially was a trade and economical or organization but it is now moving increasing towards becoming a major geo political player and that is going to be one of the main subjects of discussions during an upcoming brick summit in south africa and yet despite of course there are many agreements on the political. level of rushing china still have several things that they need to a to work on and i'm all of those things is the gas supplies deal from russia to china which has been in the works for ten years and it does look like during this visit russia and china have made some headway towards finding a solution but the details of the deal are yet to be figured out and it is expected that those details will come up until the end of the year but of course the chinese leader said that russia and china nevertheless are to others because partner and are resisting eye to eye on a lot of issues and cooperation is something that the two countries are going not just to continue but will bolster he said that his trip there is a symbolic significance by happening in march because the leader hopes that he will

see some very good fruits borne forth from the seeds that he has sown during this visit and with russia and china becoming cornerstone brics economies professor joseph chang a political analyst at hong kong city university believes the lines between the two could serve as a foundation for expanding the group's global sway the brics countries to be to establish effective mechanisms to get their act together. is a lot of company men parity among the brics you commonly use with china's capital research with. huge surprise of natural resources and so on and of course again there is a very strong common interest in the sense that all five members would like to see a larger role you dig international community. coming up not even close to

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leaves it's. very. easy. to get. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. was welcome back outraged anti-government protesters have broken into the muslim brotherhood headquarters in the egyptian capital that's after thousands encircled

the offices and clashed with riot police outside the health ministry says ninety six people have been injured in the latest outbreak of violence which erupted on friday artie's peltry has the details. chaotic clashes continued into friday nights in the surrounding areas of the muslim brotherhood headquarters which is right behind me here in the mccutcheon district in cairo police were fending off protesters from the main gates it is the most headquarters using excessive amounts of take us protesters responded with a moment of cocktails and rocks meanwhile a few hundred meters away protest is engaged with street battles in street battles with supporters of the missing brotherhood ten number two hours before and the time those demonstrators fleeing the police come fire started friday morning when anti-government protesters decided to march on the headquarters that is mystery protest against a president who hails from of the muslim brotherhood and also protesting against what was a legit tact by the missed him by

a legit attack by mr bobbitt members last week on journalists were seen injuries coming off the front line with people with severe head injuries in addition to people fainting and vomiting from tear gas and i also saw civilians holding hand made weapons shotguns i wasn't able to ascertain which side they were on but there were a lot of gunfire in these battles between the rival civilian protest groups and basically is what it's showing is a divided egypt as these a civilian protest and continue to clash it doesn't seem to be any hope of dialogue between oppositional forces and the president protesters here say that there's been no change in the last two years in egypt the president mahmoud morsi is ignoring their main demands and instead they have a constitution that has been written by an islamist dominated constituent assembly the brotherhood for their part say the demonstrators of violence and head to the headquarters and therefore they've been responding in a way of defense what is really showing is that this very little hope of a unified egypt on the horizon. the guantanamo bay hunger strike has gone beyond

the critical forty five day mark when doctors say health is put it serious risk officials at the detention center in cuba have acknowledged more detainees are joining the protest over alleged mistreatment this comes amid a pentagon request for forty nine million dollars to build a new prison building and carry out renovations despite a four year old promise to shut it down and each can reports. the spokesperson for guantanamo robert zubrin responded to our tease inquiry here's what he writes as of friday the twenty second of march twenty third seed we have twenty six hunger strike is with eight receiving and will feeds this is an increase from thursday which was twenty five and eight we have two detainees in the detainee hospital for rehydration an observation on angel freed last time robert durango back to us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although defense attorneys had been saying there were many more on the robber duran

says there are twenty six we cannot independently verify these numbers or any of this so we have to rely on the response that we get from the officials and the detainees lawyers and here's the latest from the attorneys apparently there are now denied direct access to their clients and one prominent attorneys say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds that's almost fourteen telegrams since the strike began at the beginning of february that visit was approved by the military but the lawyers say they've just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was canceled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp sauterne is a really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now and not just the attorneys but we journalist as well i spoke with a lawyer who was denied access to her client to guantanamo this week she told me there is a sense among defense attorneys that they are being deliberately ignored by the authorities so assuming there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the

to the department to bear arms to the commander. asking them to. talk to us about detainees conditions we have heard no response so there is a sense of helplessness among the attorneys as well a few months ago the state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison and on top of aid the u.s. south and. man and that's the command that oversees guantanamo has just requested forty nine million dollars to build a new prison building at guantanamo bay for quote unquote special detainees on top of other renovations it says are necessary since washington decided to keep it open indefinitely the military said the actual taxpayer bill for upgrading the deteriorating facilities would be almost one hundred ninety six million dollars and all of this effectively means that the detainees are stuck in this legal limbo indefinitely british m.p. george galloway says despite the promise the u.s.

has no intention to close guantanamo. prison camp where you are held without charge without drywall indefinitely where your lawyer has no right to see you where you have no rights of any kind can never be made more comfortable even if you put thick carpet big armchairs like we have in the british parliament in it it will never be comfortable it remains an outrage but the significance of the investment is this they wouldn't be spending tens of millions of new dollars on guantanamo if they didn't intend to keep it as a legal black hole where so-called illegal combatants are incarcerated people by the way seized and kidnapped from around the world and taken their drug and manacled in many cases this is the stuff of fiction but unfortunately it's fact in two thousand and thirteen in obama's america political correctness maybe leaving

british taxpayers out of pocket in an attempt to accommodate non english speaking immigrants one london council but half a million pounds on translations that will never be read. as taking to the streets to see what locals have to say about their hard earned money being lost in translation. for those who live in the u.k. and don't speak english the british government's been understanding for the past several years that's because local councils translates information about that services into up to as many as seventy different languages so whether it's your pension feeding instructions and or do or a new thoughts about how to lose weight in a choice of punjab. it's available and courtesy of the u.k. taxpayer and miss north london bar of hiring day the local town hall wasted almost wholesome million pounds translating documents that no one ended up reading leaflets included a school's guidance french somali and her class as well as

a gay lesbian bisexual and transgender services directory and friends they meet reflects what they're doing and before they commit mass amounts of money terrible waste that is not right when i see people homeless on the streets. we need to get messages across however people from different backgrounds with english is a second language they've got responsibility. which is the minister for local government eric pickles says that the u.k.'s immigrants need to improve their english while local governments could do with brushing up on their money according to pickles putting a stop to the exorbitant translations of public information could help to save money for portions worsening economy as well as help to improve the english of immigrants and help to integrate them into british society we need to start getting immigrants to work for the u.k. as opposed to the u.k.

spending a lot of money on immigration we should try and help them but not to extent of wasting it most accounts we should have a policy of we shouldn't buy stuff from media stuff especially when budgets are really being cut translations across all public bodies cost the u.k. government a hundred forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister. and the whole principle situation when no one speaks english as their main language in too many british households so if you can only read your local council newsletter in bengali arabic or somali you might think about signing up for some english lessons otherwise it could all end up greek to you polly boy artsy london quickly now some other international news the president of the mayan mars declared a state of emergency in the city of me after three days of relentless sectarian violence gangs of buddhists armed with machetes and torches attacked muslim communities and how used in their path it is the worst violence to hit mine maher

since last summer's deadly riots in the west of the country. tensions are running high in the syrian capital as mourners prepare to bury the muslim preacher killed in a suicide bomb attack on a mosque last thursday forty nine people died in the attack including a staunch supporter of president bashar al assad sheikh. the syrian president to the perpetrators promising to cleanse the country of extremists. the lebanese prime minister and his whole government have resigned following a dispute with the shiite group hezbollah are the country has been in political deadlock ever since hezbollah brought the creation of a supervisory body for parliamentary elections coming up in june the move could destabilize lebanon which is finding it increasingly difficult to stop the syrian conflict from spilling over its border. and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has apologized to turkey for errors that may have occurred during the garza flotilla raid on boats carrying aid to guard twenty ten israeli commandos

stormed six boats heading to palestine killing nine to nationals netanyahu also promised to compensate the victims' families and underline the importance of cooperation between the two states during a phone call to the prime minister frosty relations with thought during president obama's recent visit to the middle east and easing tensions between israel and its neighbors. coming up next we head to our washington studio for the breaking news that we've got to. jorge rios an argentinean student at seventeen other similar students from foreign

countries all paid a private company between three thousand and four thousand dollars so that they get to take part in a u.s. state department work study program he was promised forty hours of work per week at a common fast food restaurant with a decent salary but the reality he claims was quite different he was actually only given around four hours of work per week but was expected to be on call twenty four seven like a surgeon i guess in case of some burger emergency he says he was forced to live in accommodations that were provided by the restaurant real six plane that he had to sleep in a child sized bunk bed in a basement with seven other people in filthy conditions and for this service he had to pay the restaurant three hundred dollars a month overall real swallowed up paying the burger joints to work for them what a way to not make a living though this story sounds funny on the surface many foreigners in work and study and work in travel programs do experience exploitation upon arrival in the usa i've even personally met some of them so i know but more than that in

a time when millions of americans are struggling to put food on the kitchen table why are companies searching for thousands of exploitable foreigners to work for two dollars an hour cheaper it is corporate greed and their absolute disrespect for americans that allows this to happen just pay the extra two dollars and have americans work for you to cheap corporate pigs but that's just my opinion. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less bad luck i got so many i mean i have my hands down i believe that i'm seeing the same thing really messed up. in the old story so personally apologize it's. worse for the listener in the white house of a. radio guy and four minutes from the. what. we're about

to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so a couple of days ago the cia's chief technology officer gus hunt laid out the candid truth when it comes to the agency's insatiable craving for more and more and more information you see the agency just signed a ten year deal with amazon first six hundred million dollars cloud data storage service so it's like quite a lot doesn't it well this week good old gus revealed why what he said quote the value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time since you can't connect dots you don't have the drives us into a mode oh we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it for ever wait

wait wait how. would have good. mood. today. oh my god forever well cia here's just another show to add to the never ending data file you surely have on me so let's break that so. it looks like. you ever seen anything like. obama just wrapped up his first presidential trip to israel and palestine during his three day visit he spent ninety nine percent of his time in israel meeting with officials making symbolic gestures and touring the country and yet in palestine he spent nearly hours briefly meeting with the palestinian authority and visit in a church what he felt to see in the short time he was there was hundreds of palestine.